As we continue with our plans to produce our “Ruffus The Dog – A Christmas Carol”, we continue posting the original episodes over on the official Ruffus web site – all under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license.
Last week we got some attention over at BoingBoing courtesy of Cory Doctorow for our Troll Under The Bridge episode. This week’s offering is our own version of The Pied Piper:
The song in it, composed by JP Houston, is probably one of the weirdest dreamy and hallucinogenic songs I’ve had the pleasure for performing for a kids television show. Another remarkable thing about this particular episode is that we only had five puppeteers for that day so the cast o’ thousands was created using layer upon layer of puppets being dressed and re-redressed to helped form a visual crowd. Nutty stuff you have to do when you don’t have a budget.
Speaking of budgets – we’re less than 2 weeks away from the end of our fund raising efforts over at our IndieGoGo pages and we are no where near reaching our target of $8,500. Those monies are meant to cover the hard costs associated with putting together this production and it is a paltry amount. We’re sued to working with small budgets – but come on!. $8,500 for a half hour holiday special with 3 original songs, CG virtual sets and a cast of puppets in period costumes?
That, ladies and jellybeans, boys and gorillas, is a frickin’ bargoon!
So PLEASE tell everyone you know to chip in however little they can so we can get this production made without having to resort to pulling a Bakshi by making the last half of the show into a post-it-note flip-book of the storyboards.
No matter how much – or how little – we raise we are doing this and it will be freakin’ awesome.
Here’s a glimpse of the CG Victorian London we’ll be “shooting” in:
Our shoot dates are set for Nov.29th to Dec. 2nd. The edit, CG effects and audio mix will be done within 3 weeks after that so we can meet our release date of Tuesday, December 21st.
What we are trying to accomplish is, admittedly, insane – but that means we’re the right people for the job.
Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tweet this. Digg it. Promote it. Share it! Give what you can. Many thanks.
Cheers.
UPDATE: We’ve been featured on the IndieGoGo pages – again! Don’t know how long that will be up – but there it is. Thanks IndieGoGo!
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